Does Energy Policy Give Republicans A Road to Relevancy?
There is an issue that could bring California Republicans back in 2014 and it is called energy, specifically the extraction of oil and gas from the Monterey Shale that runs from Orange to Santa Barbara Counties, along the coast and includes Kern County and much of the Central Valley. No one knows how much oil […]
I’m Back, but CA Politics is Still the Same (Too Bad)
I was out of the state for a few weeks but from what I can gather not much has changed around here politically. Democrats want to raise taxes; unions and certain special interests continue their grip on the legislature; and legislators are concerned with transparency only when it doesn’t affect their business. Despite all the […]
High Speed Rail’s Collision Course: Part Two, Broken Promises
In Part One I focused on some of the key cost and benefit issues relating to California’s high speed rail (HSR) proposal. The following is a review of previous commitments about how HSR would be built and perform, which appear impossible to achieve under the present proposal. In summary, the scaled back system now envisioned […]
G8 in CA, A Taxonomy and Strategy, Part 2
In Part One, I detail some of the full-throated national debate on the G8 immigration bill. Despite spending hours on the Facebook and comment boards—and having a dozen google alerts— the action is so fast and furious it’s difficult to keep up. Organizing the CAGOP congressmen by Latino CVAP (Latino citizen voting age population; a […]